[Evan Thompson]

Right, Thanks.

[Evan Thompson]

Alright, great to know!

Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge and time.
I should now be fully prepared to get the best quality I can to wherever I need it.

Thank you,
-Evan

[Evan Thompson]

Great information. Thank you.
But what if I went over 20 Mbps, like say 100 Mbps to make it look it’s best for YouTube?

[Evan Thompson]

Hello again,
I have one more question
The quality of the video is coming out beautifully now. I am now free to worry about file size.
I exported a 5 minute video to MP4 (H.264) with pretty high settings. The outcome was a perfect quality 3.45 GB video file. I am doing an MP4 as a secondary video that I might upload to YouTube. I was thinking that a much smaller file size would be best for YouTube. So I downgraded the quality, taking it down to about 690 MB. But that introduced a slight fuzzing in the video.

What is the best or max Bitrate for YouTube uploads?
Is there a file size limit for YouTube?
Is it possible to get perfect quality on YouTube, or does it have to lose some quality?

Also, is that a problem that a 5 minute MP4 is 3.45 gigabytes?

Thanks,
-Evan

[Evan Thompson]

I don’t think they can. But I will be sure not to miss any unwanted keyframes.
Thank you,
-Evan

[Evan Thompson]

Joseph,
Thanks for the tip. Zooming isn’t an issue; I make sure there are no extra keyframes existing. However, if multiple keyframs can be in the exact same frame, then that might catch me off guard.

Can two or more keyframes be in the exact same frame?

[Evan Thompson]

Thanks for the extra information Todd.

That page actually contained a direct answer to my original question!

“In some cases, the Auto Bezier spatial interpolation for Position keyframes can cause undesired back-and-forth (boomerang) motion between two keyframes with equal values. In such a case, you can change the earlier keyframe to use Hold interpolation or change both keyframes to use Linear interpolation”

This all clears up this issue for me.
Thank you very much CreativeCOW and members!
-Evan

[Evan Thompson]

Joseph,
Thank you for your reply.
Yes, they are Bezier, because they are “eased”. But the “ease” has nothing to do with it. Even if I do switch them to Linear, the same issue is still present. It is acting like there is a keyframe in between them changing their value.

Chris,
I had not known what the graph was for before. Thanks for bringing it up. I looked at the graph, and it didn’t matter whether it was Linear or Bezier, the lines on the graph changed, but the effect did not.
I have been using the keyframe interpolation menu to change the keyframes from “eased” back to regular linear keyframes.

Update:
I just checked into the keyframes interpolation menu a little more. Changing the Spatial Interpolation to Linear as well did the trick. It doesn’t do this to all the keyframes I switch over, but for some reason it does happen to some.

Thanks for the link by the way, it’s always good to get more knowledge about this kind of stuff. (If I had watched it earlier, it might have given me a clue to the problem.)

Now I have control over this issue.
Thank you for your assistance.
-Evan

[Evan Thompson]

Thank you everyone for all the tips.
I have been trying your suggestions but the video was still having that weird effect on it, no matter how high the quality was. I put the settings on the absolute highest quality, but the outcome was still horrible. It just didn’t work the way it should. It made me feel like everything I was doing was a waste of time, and that nothing came out how it should.

I expected that all the export settings I had tried really should have worked. And I was right, they should have.

Now I have found the problem: My sequence’s and composition’s settings and sizes weren’t synchronized. I recreated my compositions and sequences and then exported them all on the same settings. It looked just how it did when it came out of After Effects: Perfect! Just how I created it.
I didn’t know these settings would have that kind of impact on the end result.
Now that it is finally coming out like I would expect it to, it is well worth it.

I’m sorry to have bothered everyone with this issue.
But I am so relieved to know how it is going to be turning out from now on.

Thank you all for your support, keep up the good work.

-Evan

[Evan Thompson]

Ivan,
The Sequence dimensions were 720X480, and I’m using DVDVideoSoft FreeStudio to convert it. But I can’t set exact dimensions for that, just the “quality”. I’ll try the other things out.
Thank you for you help.

-Evan